. A dictionary of birds . places, Quetzalapan,Quetzaltepec, and Quezaltenango, thongh perhaps some of the last were nameddirectly from the personages (c/. Bancroft, Native Eaees of the Pacific States,vol. V. Index). Quetzal-itzli is said to be the emerald. ^ This specimen had been given to Mr. Canning (a tribute, perhaps, to thestatesman who afterwards boasted that he had called a New World intoexistence to redress the balance of the Old ) by Mr. Schenley, a diplomatist,and was then thought to be unique in Europe ; but, apart from those Avhiehhad reached Spain, where they lay neglected an
. A dictionary of birds . places, Quetzalapan,Quetzaltepec, and Quezaltenango, thongh perhaps some of the last were nameddirectly from the personages (c/. Bancroft, Native Eaees of the Pacific States,vol. V. Index). Quetzal-itzli is said to be the emerald. ^ This specimen had been given to Mr. Canning (a tribute, perhaps, to thestatesman who afterwards boasted that he had called a New World intoexistence to redress the balance of the Old ) by Mr. Schenley, a diplomatist,and was then thought to be unique in Europe ; but, apart from those Avhiehhad reached Spain, where they lay neglected and undescribed, James Wilsonsays (Illustr. Zool. pi. vi. text) that others were brought with it, and that oneof them was given to the Edinburgh Museum. On the 21st day of the sale ofBullocks Museum in 1819, Lot 38 is entered in the Catalogue as The TailFeather of a magnificent undescribed Trogon, and very likely belonged to thisspecies. It was bought for nineteen shillings by Warwick, a well-knownLondon dealer. QUEZAL 759. -^
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